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See, it's statements like that which annoy women. What do "pleasing aesthetics" have to do with anything? Why do you even need to refer to that when you talk about women?

And then, just for good measure, the good old "she must've slept her way up the ladder" trope.

No, I can assure you, we (for the large majority, at the very least) have not "charmed our way into the work force". We've worked pretty damn hard to get there. We put up with a lot of bullshit, and yes, we (on average) put up with more bullshit than the average male dev.
ASK PG: If we cant get the "expired link" thing fixed, countdown instead?
Id love to have a countdown for just how long until the timer for page freshness runs out.<p>For the past several years, the "unknown expired link" has been an absolute infuriating problem.<p>Just add a timer and quell user click rage.
"Just give the caller ridiculous answers in response to their first few queries and see if they balk."

Sure, you me and many others on HN could try this or be defensive when we get asked for our information but the common customer wouldn't balk. They would just rattle off the information and continue the conversation.

The point of the article is that this style of marketing is training customers to feel comfortable with giving out personal information when they're on the receiving end of a call.
This is actually quite interesting. What it tells me is that "luck" (not timing, nor karma) is the most significant determinant whether something goes viral or not. Content comes second.
Because there is equally no reason that the statement should be false.
This is great! Snappily written and very entertaining.
been there done that. Had stock options not from one, not two, but three startups in dot coms. Worked 60 hrs week - to the bone. Came through with nothing, actually lost money because in one of the startup I had to buy out my options and it came with a large tax bill for some reason
Ditto. I was going to upgrade for the light, but the lack of buttons are making me hold off. I can leave the lamp on. I love just barely squeezing my hand together to turn the page. It's almost a non-movement.
I don't know, I kind of read your comment to say that unless you're dying some horrible death you shouldn't be using the word "heartbreaking" to describe the plight of someone. I think it would be heartbreaking for someone to toil away their time with family and friends in the hopes of a payout only to have it blow up in their face. Relationships do die and health does suffer from the strain of some peoples endeavors. While you can say that these programmers and artists brought it upon themselves and took on that challenge, at the same time there is enormous pressure by employers and the culture itself which reinforces the notion of grinding away and sometimes poor work/life balances.

I think it's very hard to define exactly where your slippery slope of perspective begins and ends. Bottom line is that greater injustice is never an excuse for injustice. Neither are acceptable.
... or one bash command to install Janus.
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This is pretty cool. Although I wonder what "grouper" is getting out of this. And why grouper is willing to part with good money. It seems wasteful to me.
Would have been interesting if you wrote that persons information down and gave him a call to let him know what just happened. It's make a great story for the press and could pressure Rogers to stop this information leak and otherwise poor security policies.
Game != competition. You get a few point for writing an accepted answer, but two good answers can both get up vote points from one reader.
I keep thinking that widget is the scroll bar and clicking a share button accidentally.
Happy to answer questions, to the extent possible.

This dovetails quite a bit with the Ramit Sethi interviews earlier, but is largely about the mechanics of businesses as they get away from the solo consultant stage. There is some very important math in there for folks looking to expand by hiring. (Copious hat tips due to Thomas for much of the advice here. Except the bad stuff, that's mine.)
Nope, you can look away from the troll and focus your attention on the good stuff. You have the power to weigh good stuff more heavily.
I think you're ignoring the role of psychology. I think you do this very explicitly in your first comment:

>some Silicon Valley developers, one of the highest paid professions in one of the highest paid areas of the world, only made a decent salary instead of a fantastic total compensation package?

The relevance of the integrity of the managers to the ways people make decisions that determine the course of their lives is not something to be taken lightly. This applies even if the consequences themselves do not appear to be so dire. There is a distinctly painful feeling that comes along with devoting your life to someone who abuses that. For those familiar with this perception, the idea that you could ignore it is preposterous. From your perspective, whatever it may be, it could beyond your imagination and experience.

You might say this:

>Is it really 'heartbreaking' when someone's 17-year-old cat dies? It's a normal and expected outcome; plus, not only were they lucky enough to afford a pet and keep it in good health, the animal itself hasn't lost much, considering it's limited cognitive capacity.

And yet anyone who has been through or even near this situation would find the argument to be incredibly callous, because the formation of human emotion has so much more to it than simply evaluating one's present situation.

I understand the sentiment that perhaps nobody is entitled to a fantastically large amount of money and that people living what we call the good life are a small minority in the world. However, that just isn't the story here.

Connections between humans are what make society possible. It's reasonable to care when they are abused.
I'm aware - I moved here from Manhattan.
I don't understand the dislike of Caecilia. Sure, it's not quite a book font, but the kindle isn't quite a book either. For the context, Caecilia looks great.
Duplicate discussions is not the same as duplcate submissions.
Could this be more of a non-story?
Maybe it's because people they do business with want to sleep with them.
Crazy. Are there any news articles where these type of social engineering scams have been successful?
Poor leadership, flimsy/parasitic business model, lack of long term engagement path for users, chasing trends rather than creating them, PR failure.

Zynga is a company that is that high school most popular jock that hops in front of all others and excels based on a small advantage in physique and looks and personality and bullies the others out of the spotlight only to be the 20-something failure who is realized as having stole al their charm from observing others' talents and mimicing them - and ultimately winding up a washed up meth head in modesto constantly claiming how great they would have been.
As a (very) avid Kindle user - I'd add the following to your list of features to make the Kindle "as good as a physical book":

o ability to loan to others
o physically robust (I've cracked three (3) screens)
o extended reading time (on at least two 10 day vacations
I ran my hyperjuice extended battery down
recharging my K3 every couple days)
o random-access speeds/location
o support for color.
> I've never known the magic of the image (or a Lisp machine), so I lack an opinion on which is superior.

None of the Lisp machines really had image-based development. The MIT ones all had an Emacs that worked on text source files. You'd boot into a system image, but that was more like a kernel binary, than the Smalltalk image with a class browser. Interlisp had a structured editor that worked on s-expressions in memory, kind of like the Smalltalk class browser, but these were saved to files (the system would automatically track which definitions were saved in which files, and could tell you about changes: http://larry.masinter.net/interlisp-ieee.pdf).
Trading loyalty cards with an acquaintance, when combined with credit card payment information, yields relationship data. That's just giving them more information.
I had the same thing happen with my bell account, I got a voice mail saying a representative was coming to my house to install a cable box, which I hadn't ordered, the number that was left wasn't the traditional bell 310 number, so I called the bell number on my bill, only to find out that they had not left that actual message - I never called that number because I didn't want to get more spam. These types of calls from tel comm have become so prevalent, once for cable, once for mobile, once for my internet, that I've become numb actually listening to what they are actually saying anymore; I'm sure if my parents were left this message they would have easily given personal information no problem.
I can imagine it being more useful for things that are easily fixable/less critical.

I was running a testing desktop, and X updated in a way that broke the proprietary nVidia drivers (nVidia's fault -- not Debian's.) That was quite annoying to suddenly have to fix. Those types of issues (though rare, even in testing) would be nice to avoid.
<sarcasm>Thanks Ubuntu for sending this update so quickly!</sarcasm>

I never really thought of Ubuntu as a bleeding-edge distribution, but it seems more and more like one lately. It used to be the distro that "just works". Now, I find myself dealing with more and more bugs as the years go. Debian stable is probably too conservative for a workstation - is there a happy medium distro out there?
I'm not in the bay area, but would like to get to know you over email. My email is in my profile. Have fun!
OP>> It definitely feels different on my eyes than LED/LCD backlighting. ... This new display, even with the lighting turned on, still feels like e-ink.

Does someone know what is going on? As such, the light is light whether from LEDs/LCD or from Kindle Paperwhite.

Kindle may be using less default brightness levels but that could be adjusted for LCDs too. Is lower contrast ratio of Kindle helping since black is not too black [1][2]

[1] Kindle has contrast ratio of ~10:1. See here http://www.best-ereaders.com/2010/09/02/eink-pearl-vs-eink-v...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357002
Or even a static div that tells the time at which the link will expire.
Trust HN to come up with a jock/nerd analogy to refer to a failing game start-up.
I'm currently juggling multiple freelancing gigs, working too much and charging too little. Over the last few months I've experienced some serious burnout, and have since hoped to start following Brennan and everyone else's advice and start charging more.

What steps can someone in my position take while in the middle of (multi-month) projects?
If Firefox hadn't gone on a version roller coasters ride I'd still be using it. At least they pull versions that need more attention. But, FF 16!?!?! 16!!!? Huh? My plugins stopped working long ago and I stopped taking Mozilla seriously long ago, well not long ago, maybe a couple of years ago when I switched to Chrome. It's weird I thought Google was a financial supporter of Mozilla?
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Also, since much of this episode is dedicated to growing a consultancy, I'm happy to formally announce that I'll be launching a 2 day, intensive online workshop next month on just that.

Emails in my profile, let me know if you'd like to be on the announcement list (going to cap the workshop at 25 people)
The most damning thing in all of this is that while the obvious salvation for Zynga is to be a roadkill acquisition by Facebook (where immediately much of their overhead is removed through reduced transaction costs), the market is placing a negative expected value on it.

Aside from no faith in management, what else could be the reason for the discount? Their business model is so bad that reducing the transaction costs can't fix it? They have hidden liabilities related to their copycat culture that haven't surfaced yet? Shareholder litigation? Or just simply a massive burn rate?
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Rogers is actually pretty ridiculous. I was about to make a post about this, but:

Rogers also sends text message spam every month. You can't opt out. I have called on 4 separate occasions and spoken to a manager, asking to be opted out of the spam. The first few times, they apologized and told me I'd be taken off the list. After I wasn't, I asked to speak to a manager, who called me back.

He told me, "Sir, that isn't spam. Those are Rogers marketing messages." After I told him that I, the customer, considered it spam and would no longer like to receive them, he told me, "I will forward your request to our marketing department, and they will determine whether it is spam."

Best company.
Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory
http://boingboing.net/2012/09/24/you-might-be-discriminating...
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Ubuntu pulls some packages from Debian unstable, so if you find Debian stable too conservative, and unstable too broken, testing might be a workable compromise: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

I personally have found that Debian unstable is more stable that Ubuntu, but my tolerance for bugs might be different than yours.
Whats worse, my analogy or your snide remark about how cliche you feel that analogy is?
At a higher level: In my view, when it comes to open source software, beer-free is a part of libre-free.

If you can support the open source projects you use and want to stick around, that'd be good. At a shallow level, it will make them better.

But if you ask an open source maintainer whether a cash-strapped college student or a third-world citizen should avoid using their software because they their donation money could be used for a different purpose..? I hope the answer is no. In fact, I hope the answer extends to "Bill Gates is welcome to use my code without compensating me. Obviously it'd be nice if he did, though."

I'm willing to bet an imaginary nickel that the OSS devs I know would actually be pretty surprised if they received anything at all.
Google launches free SMS service on Gmail in India
I used to write Java. Does that qualify me?
It's certainly better than those countless why you should be 'hacking' stuff with XYZ or why you shouldn't.
Chrome and FireFox patches take hours to be released. IE patches take weeks to be released. Can somebody explain why?
If Firefox hadn't gone on a version roller coasters ride I'd still be using it. At least they pull versions that need more attention. But, FF 16!?!?! 16!!!? Huh?

. . . you do know Chrome's at version 22 and version 24 is in dev release, right?

Knock FF for the more disruptive update process, and for breaking plugins in earlier releases, sure. But (AFAIK) the plugin interfaces have been stable for quite some time now, and Firefox 15 introduced true silent updates. They seem to have fixed the pain points in their rapid release schedule.

If you use Chrome, however, you cannot knock them for iterating more quickly; Chrome's in the same boat.
Deliver promised milestones, collect wins, tell clients as milestones are delivered that you were happy things worked out for them and, since your business is maturing, you're switching to day rates to maintain your ability to focus to be able to focus on their projects. Clients unwilling to pay your day rates will be serviced as your schedule permits. If you're burned out, then that can be the first day after never. Your health and happiness get priority.

I'd probably also take the opportunity to raise rates.
One data point: I'm also a very avid Kindle user, and I want exactly none of these.
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The plugins thing stopped very shortly after the quick-release schedule happened. Updates are now silent (as with Chrome).
Argue your privacy and Texas will just laugh at you.

Argue mark of the beast and you have a large portion of the state support you.
> That review was pure cotton candy -- published the day before the device was released, with a few other similar embargoed pieces [1]. I was convinced that he just wanted to keep getting scoops.

That's a very serious accusation. Do you have any proof to back it up? If anything, The Verge has been quite critical of technology products, and I have no reason to doubt that there's anything untoward influencing their reviews (other than from blatant Apple fanboyism, particularly on the part of Nilay Patel. Take a look at his recent iPod Nano review[0], for example).

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/10/3481926/apple-ipod-nano-r...
It's pretty amazing when you think about it. Not only do they already have you on the hook for at least 50 bucks a month (on the low end for most people) but they are also pushing you advertising to make even more.

You are completely just the commodity to them since they've had such a huge opportunity to control the market in Canada. They know it's hard for you to go somewhere else, so they have zero incentive to offer a quality user experience.
Of course whether or not the simulation is "real time" for us makes no difference to the simulation. Since time in the simulation would be perceived normally.
I could refer almost everyone at my work.
Interesting. Would you say Topolsky's praise of the snappiness of the OS, the keyboard's usefulness, and the browser's handiness are overstated?

If the Paperwhite had some of that tablet-like functionality, that'd be great.

I initially dismissed the Paperwhite, but those three features made me pause. They could give the Paperwhite the edge over the Nook's hardware pageturn buttons and cheaper adlessness.

Top of mind because I just spent an eternity (3 seconds ;] ) searching for a new book just loaded onto my Keyboard.

When the combo LCD/eInk comes in earnest[1], tablets and ereaders will converge. It'll be interesting to see how device use shifts then. Will we spend most of the time on our phones and tablets looking at eInk, Only turning on the LCD when we need it?

Battery life would be so amazing. And reading emails and other stuff might improve. I heard of a study that showed retention after reading on an LCD was worse than for deadtree.

Maybe I should design my latest browser-based project with "How would this look in greyscale?" in back of mind... at the very least it would solve any colorblind issues.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/lcd-and-e-ink-dual-screen...
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Since it is so easy to game card-based check-ins, I'm sure the teachers still have to verify attendance. Also, if a student's card isn't working, they have to be able to count that student as in attendance. I wonder how much time this actually saves.

There has been quite a bit of push-back to the use of RFID specifically. My college used magstripe cards. They're not quite as robust, but they do need physical contact to read the information. It seems like a fair trade-off considering that these are a) kids and b) they are legally required to be at school (and by extension, school policies carry some force of law).
Well, it makes a _ton_ of money ($1.3b ttm revs). Is, by far, the leading web-based/social gaming company. Is an excellent acquisition target. Has, by far, the most DAUs/MAUs. Is in an easy-to-monetize industry. Would be in the best position to take advantage of relaxed gambling laws. And on and on. What don't you get?
Still wonder why the emulator always eats up to 17% of cpu time on the Mac OS X host when the emulator is on idle.
I think your first possibility is most likely (which implies that the fourth is too, de facto).

When I started coding professionally I used IBM's VisualAge for Java (which was actually a multi-language tool based on Smalltalk) and it did exactly that: all Java classes were managed as code artefacts held in the IDE's internal repository. You had to export from the IDE if you wanted your standard files-in-directores source/objects. It worked very naturally and when IBM moved to Eclipse instead I found it to be quite a step backwards in terms of working with my code. But the drawback was was you could do exactly what the VisualAge IDE supported and not much more.

The file-based model gives a level of low-cost interoperability that's pretty hard to beat.
By ensuring that the “smart” ID contains no information of interest to anyone

Surely that would involve making it not work.
So someone put out a stable build, someone with plenty of history and name recognition, Ubuntu pushed this out to users quickly and you fault them for it?

If you want Debian Stable, go install Debian Stable.
So, you left Firefox not because they release often, but because their extension system is lacking. At least be articulate in your criticism, it will better help them improve.
I dont like how the current line is always 0 and not the actual line number. How do I fix that? I have never seen this elsewhere.

I must admit that this distro will help my workflow.
No: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756
I am not sure how this can be useful for some one. When I want to take a train journey, I would like to know my train's position a few hours before I leave or when I am already at that station. I would not be sitting in front of this website and locating my train. A simple service of informing me about the delay by SMS would just be good enough. Also, the webpage loads a bit slowly on my laptop. On my smartphone with a 3G connection, it does not work at all.
Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the “mark of the beast” – a reference to the Bible's apocalyptic Book of Revelations.

This sounds like the root cause of the protests. Students and parents aren't complaining about the idea of just having to carry an ID card like a license. They are complaining about the RFID aspect of the card. They just have some superstitious fear of technology. There was a similar panic by crackpots when barcodes came out because barcodes were also thought to be the "Mark of the Beast"

“Using this information along with an RFID reader means a predator could use this information to determine if the student is at home and then track them wherever they go. These chips are always broadcasting so anyone with a reader can track them anywhere,”

Anyone want to bet those same students have Google Latitude, Twitter+geolocation, or some similar app on their smartphones?
While I genuinely believe that documentary saddened you, you're basically saying that skilled workers in the first world don't deserve words connoting sympathy or outrage when they're fucked over by their employer.

You don't think Elvis was taking his economic privilege into account when he wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"? Maybe he should have called it "Momentary Romantic Setback Hotel". Or maybe the word "heartbreaking" should be reserved for citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where, all things considered, things are considerably more dire.

"The National Adjective Council must regrettably inform you that your first world documentary viewing experience was merely 'disheartening'."
Also worth looking at: hot-data tracking in the VFS layer.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIwM...

Should help btrfs catch up with ZFS.
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